Smoked salt
Smoked salt is a wonderful, universal spice that has a pronounced aroma of smoke and the taste of smoked meat. This is a completely natural product, consisting of table salt, which is smoked on oak wood. This salt will add an amazing flavor to any dish.
In cooking, smoked salt can replace ordinary salt. All kinds of first courses, sauces, meat and fish dishes, vegetable dishes, potato and legume dishes, pizzas, casserole and unsweetened pies, sauces, snacks and more. Smoked salt goes especially well with meat. And in a variety of cooking options: on an open fire, in the oven, on the grill, in a frying pan. Even smoked salt can often be found in the recipe of cocktails.
How to cook smoked salt at home?
To prepare homemade salt we need:
- table salt;
- grill or smokehouse;
- coal;
- baking sheets;
- 5 wood firewood (alder or pecan)
- 2 cups wood chips.
Method of cooking:
- Heat the coals on one side of the grill. When ash appears on it - we put wood chips and firewood, we establish a grid. Cover the grill with a lid and half open the vent.
- While the grill is heating up, divide the salt into 2 trays.
- Next, open the grill and put the sheets on the side where there is no coal and cover the lid.
- Salt should be smoked for 60 minutes or until the smoke stops appearing.
- Remove the salt from the grill, let it cool and spread out in containers.
The benefits of salt for the body.
Food salt is involved in natural life processes, thus very important for our body.
- Salt is needed to produce gastric juice. Since the body itself is not able to produce this mineral, salt must enter the body daily.
- Thanks to salt, the body activates the processes that produce enzymes responsible for acid-base balance.
- Salt is able to regulate sugar levels in the body.
- Scientists have found that it is salt-free diets and diuretics that wash out mineral salts from the body and increase the risk of Alzheimer's disease.
- The daily norm of table salt should not exceed 10 grams.
Reduce or completely eliminate salt from the diet is recommended for those who suffer from:
- obesity;
- hypertension;
- heart and vascular problems;
- liver and kidney problems;
- rheumatism.
It is a pity that table salt can bring in large quantities:
- calcium is leached from the body;
- blood circulation is disturbed;
- metabolic processes are disturbed;
- edema occurs;
- dehydrated tissues;
- fluid is retained in the body.
You can buy smoked salt in our online store both at retail from 100 grams and wholesale from 2 kilograms.